Israel’s Far-Right PM Candidate Seeks to Annex Gaza, West Bank
- Israel’s Far-Right PM Candidate Seeks to Annex Gaza, West Bank
by Harry Fawcett, 3 Apr 2019, https://www.aljazeera.com/
Moshe Feiglin, who has seen a surge in polls, is a member of one of the country’s smaller but controversial parties vying for power as Benjamin Netanyahu battles to keep top post.
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With six days to go before Israel’s general election, attention is focused on the battle for re-election by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu needs the help of smaller parties to defeat his main challenger, former army chief Benny Gantz.
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Meanwhile, the country is also seeing a rise of other far-right candidates. The Zehut party’s Moshe Feiglin wants to annex the occupied West Bank and Gaza and dispatch hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to other countries.
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